Top News Bank of Japan Resumes Hiking Rates as Economy Strengthens The Bank of Japan raised its target for the overnight call rate to 0.5% from 0.25%, making its third rate hike since ending its ...

The bank's promise to seek more rate hikes sent Japanese government bond yields higher. The policy-sensitive two-year JGB yield briefly reached 0.725%, the highest level since October 2008, while the ...

Markets are viewing a quarter-point rate hike as a virtual certainty at the conclusion of a two-day meeting on Friday.

Japan's core consumer prices rose 3.0% in December year-on-year to mark the fastest annual pace in 16 months, likely ...

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(Bloomberg) -- The Bank of Japan may hike interest rates to 1% eventually, heaping pressure on yields to rise in the world’s second-biggest government bond market, according to T. Rowe Price.

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In the eyes of Japanese economic policymakers, there have been few surprises from the nearly week-old Trump administration.

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That was the message from the Bank of Japan and some financial markets in Asia on Friday as they reviewed the first days of President Trump’s second term.

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